Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley

Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by breckinloggins on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @05:51PM (#9036227)

I'm really starting to love what Microsoft is doing and I feel like they are trying hard to court non-MS developers. Part of me badly wants to jump back to the MS world. The Surface Pro 3 looks like an ideal machine for me and I do miss Visual Studio.

But I just can't do it without real POSIX support.

I'm just invested in a POSIX world. I want native BASH, fork, a git that isn't 5x slower (last I tried), and a real terminal.

So, Microsoft... if you're reading this, can you please, pretty please, add a nice officially supported not-going-anywhere POSIX layer to your OS? It's the reason I switched to OS X, and it would be the reason I'd switch back to MS.

It's almost the only thing you're missing from my side of the developer culture.

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by notduncansmith on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @07:45PM (#9036681)

So much this. I'm really proud of Microsoft for the strides they've made lately, but like you, I switched to Mac specifically because of the underlying UNIX layer. Too much of our world is in POSIX land, and I like it that way.

Alternatively, I'd be happy if .NET were truly cross-platform, so I could use my Mac to develop apps for the Windows Phone I'm typing this from (without a VM).

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by kazagistar on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @08:04PM (#9036758)

I realize this does not meet the implied requirement of not having to relearn a bunch of stuff, but PowerShell certainly qualifies as a real terminal, just different.

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by pjc50 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:47AM (#9038122)

Can one start a Powershell remotely in the same manner as ssh?

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by nailer on Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:44AM (#9038268)

There's powershell remoting for this.

You can also SSH into a Windows box with powershell server, it's expensive though. If Microsoft just purchased it and made it an add on, I suspect a lot of Unix people would be pleasantly surprised by how rad powershell is.

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by nailer on Thursday February 12, 2015 @11:24AM (#9039481)

Link for anyone interested: http://www.powershellserver.com/overview/ssh/

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by netheril96 on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @10:32PM (#9037220)

And support for UTF-8.

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